Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] USB over network

[Paul Brook]

On Monday 06 October 2008, Paul Brook wrote:
> > Attached is a preliminary  patch which add QEmu the ability to use local
> > USB devices over network. It should work with DOK devices and might work
> > with web cameras.
>
> Apart from anything else, it's missing documentation.
>
> It looks like you have to start qemu with magic options on the remote
> machine? This seems a very bad solution. The remote stub should be a
> separate application which communicated via a documented protocol.
> Preferably this should be a standardised protocol that is/can be suppoorted
> by third party devices.

As a specific example, have you looked at  http://usbip.sourceforge.net/ ?
It doesn't seem to be particularly active, but it's at least a useful 
reference point to see whether your remote protocol is sane.

Paul